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Homelab Proxying With Cloudflare Tunnel

This is post number 9 in my 100 Days To Offload challenge. View all posts or subscribe via RSS. Traditionally, I’ve exposed my homelab directly to the internet. I point a DNS record to my home IP, ...

Multiple emails in git for different computers

As someone who code on multiple machines to work on different projects, I like to commit with different emails. I don’t know how everyone else handle different emails in .gitconfig and track dotfil...

On rants about gemini

Recently there’ve been some discussions about how Gemini “doesn’t fix anything” on Lobste.rs: Why Gemini is Not My Favorite Internet Protocol Gemini is Useless As well as a few posts related to tha...

Moving to Cloudflare Pages

This is post number 8 in my 100 Days To Offload challenge. View all posts or subscribe via RSS. Today I caught up for coffee with a good friend, Renlord. He’s convinced me to move this blog to Clou...

Business Urban Legends

There are a few business urban legends I’ve heard over the years that I try to trace down. It’s interesting to me because some seem simple to source, but end up being not so simple. I try to find t...

React class components in the World of Hooks

Hooks have taken over the React community by storm, so have class components really become useless?

Have you ever thought, how ‘nodemon’ works internally? Let’s build our own ‘nodemon’ in under 10 minutes!

Do you know 0.1 + 0.2 ≠ 0.3 in JavaScript? Here is why!

Magic Keyboard for iPad

This is post number 7 in my 100 Days To Offload challenge. View all posts or subscribe via RSS. I bought a Magic Keyboard for my 11” iPad Pro yesterday. It arrived today. The travel on the switches...

Formatting Numbers of Unknown Order of Magnitude

Formatting Numbers of Unknown Order of Magnitude Sometimes, I write programs that need to display numbers where I don't know how big or small they will be. The most common approaches of printing nu...

Gemini Capsule in a FreeBSD Jail running on a RaspberryPi

Intro With the recent release of FreeBSD 13, I wanted to test it out on a spare RaspberryPi 3 that was part of my old Kubernetes cluster. In particular, FreeBSD Jails have always interested me, alt...

Tools I use

Thought it would be helpful to describe the various tools and things I use on a day to day basis. Inspired by Stephen Musoke Senkomago who was inspired by Wes Bos’ Uses. These are the tools I use f...

Self-employment: three months update

some background I jumped into the world of self-employment as a DevOps freelancer at the beginning of this year. After reviewing my first month was well received by the community I decided to keep ...

Building House News Wire

This guide walks through creating House News Wire, a simple and open-source message posting app that includes user registration and authentication.

Faelix is a Zen Internet Wholesale Partner

We’ve been providing reliable virtual and dedicated hosting, fast connectivity and the build of enterprise and carrier networks for 18 years, supporting businesses across the UK. Recently we’ve bee...

Pocket CHIP Terminal Dashboard

Intro When I first got my Pocket C.H.I.P. one of the first thoughts I had was to use it as sort of a mini-desktop terminal to display things like weather, new mail, etc. After doing some other tink...

Rendering static Pleroma posts

This is post number 6 in my 100 Days To Offload challenge. View all posts or subscribe via RSS. Following on from yesterday’s post about static tweets, I’ve also added a shortcode for fetching post...

Rendering static tweets

This is post number 5 in my 100 Days To Offload challenge. View all posts or subscribe via RSS. Update (12/09/21): I wrote an update to this post here, which describes a much less hacky way of doin...

Custom shortcodes

This is post number 4 in my 100 Days To Offload challenge. View all posts or subscribe via RSS. I’ve known about custom shortcodes in Hugo for awhile, but I’ve never had the need to use them. Now t...

Johnny Dreamcastaway Released!

Johnny Castaway for the Dreamcast is now released! I like to call it Johnny Dreamcastaway, and it didn’t take me too long to port. It’s working splendidly! A glorious internal 640x480 screen resolu...